Word: fitful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reminiscence would have followed an internal logic of its own. Zigmond, relying on the experiences and words of others, must develop his argument in a more formal way. He fails for two reasons. First, the abstractness and detachment of the essay simply do not fit a subject so intensely personal and emotionally complex. It is easy to list, in a neatly ordered manner, the "problems" faced by a white volunteer: guilt, fear, prejudice (both ways), self-doubt, etc. Such a list, however, provides about as much feel for the problems as would a similar list for the "horrors...
Most of the authorities differed sharply with the criticisms presented by George Lichtheim in an article entitled "All the News That's Fit to Print" which appeared in the September issue of Commentary magazine...
...convenience; to Christiane, it was a tragedy. The court of Weimar called her "Goethe's pig," and he did not allow her to share his table when company was present. As the years passed, Christiane took to drink and ran to fat. After 20 years, in a fit of remorse, Goethe married her; but the damage had been done. Christiane died at 50, a broken woman. Goethe's problem, says Friedenthal, was one that commonly afflicts the creative temperament: he experienced every woman as a potential mother and himself as an eternal child. To the end, Goethe carried...
That was putting it mildly. In autocratic Otto's years as lord high executioner of foreign aid bills, the chairman of his parent committee had been Missouri's curmudgeonly Clarence Cannon, another handout hater, who gave Passman a free hand to slash as he saw fit. But when Cannon died last year, the House Appropriations chairmanship went to Texas' George Mahon, a middle-of-the-road Democrat, who set about taming the Tartar. Though he let Passman stay on as chairman of the subcommittee, he pared it from eleven to nine members, most of whom favor foreign...
...third phase of U.S. road history is the present period of making the road fit the environment. Land use, the natural setting, social conditions and human psychology are its concerns. It acknowledges that the private car is and for scores of years will be the most used form of transportation. Its expression is the U.S. Interstate Highway system, and its symbol is the red, white and blue shield that seems to say, "Heave a sigh of relief and get moving...